In addition, we assume that the lab is similar enough to real world so that we know how much we are polluting.
If either of those assumptions are false, it indicates a bad lab condition set up which needs to be fixed. But that is not the fault of the car companies, but instead the fault of the politicians and scientists that designed the lab.
Whenever you test for something that's a proxy for the truth you want, rather than as good a measure as you can get for the actual truth, then you're introducing a disconnect. It's like how teachers are incentivized to "teach to the test" rather than teach their subjects.
Once you've done this, it's inevitable that folks will discover the cracks and exploit them. You're specifically rewarding this behavior.
Someone's looking for funding. Stay away, as this technology is no where near being useful.
Seriously? This work, and the previous work by the same U.W. lab, look to me like one of the most exciting future developments.
Maybe I'm just too excited from the sci-fi books I read where they have "motes", tiny little sensors all over a room or building or landscape, that pick up anything and everything. We're not going to power those things with batteries. Every single one will have to harvest what it can from radio waves, eke out enough to do a small amount of computing, and crucially get a "free" way to send signals back to the base station. This article describes getting enough power from an RFID scanner to power a bluetooth radio; the previous research was about passive wi-fi.
Nowhere near being useful? It honestly sounds to me like this lab is either almost there, or already there, on the radio side. I don't know how far they've come on the "sensor" side (camera / audio).
I was interested to read that he claims his theory also explains galactic rotation without the need for dark matter, and it explains cosmic acceleration without the need for dark energy. Neither of those can be experimentally verified, so he's pretty excited to have an actual experiment to test his theories.
The cheapest low-speed Comcast plan I can get is $70/month all-up, about $850/year.
If I were making $50k/year, spending $45k on basic necessities like housing, food, clothes and school stuff for my kids -- then no way would Comcast be a good use of 20% of my disposable income. No way!
What if you only copy things after the 14 + 14 year duration that US copyright law originally had?
If you support copyright as originally laid down, and obey it, but think that the copyright contract between public and producers has been unilaterally and unfairly altered to the detriment of the public?
Is there a better way to find out what sex (if any) someone identifies with than listening to their claims?
I think there is a better way that gives trans people a better deal than they get currently, and stops the silly hysteria about rapists claiming to be female to get into female restrooms &c.
(1) Listen to the customer's claims (2) If the service provider doesn't believe the customer's claims, then decline service (3) If the customer feels that they were unfairly declined service, then sue the service provider on the grounds that the customer *does* identify as female, and the terms of service say that service will be granted to anyone who identifies as female.
When it comes to court, the customer can win their case by proving that they identify as female; the service provider can win their case by proving that they don't. It'll be a civil case and so has "balance of probability" rules.
How will it be proved? The definition of "identify as" is that it's a deeply held psychological certainty. Both sides will get expert psychological experts, and prior behavior evidence, and testimonies from folks surrounding them. Whoever persuades the judge or jury on balance of probability that they're right, will win. If it's the customer who wins, then the service provider will naturally adjust their practices.
This will "just work" for most customers including most trans customers. For the minority who are refused service, it will be distressing, but will be a typical distress in a much wider sea of worse distresses.
By definition you can't "decide to" identify as something. Identity is a deep innate psychological thing.
Sure you can CLAIM to identify as a woman. But that's a very different thing.
How can someone make rules that distinguish "identify as woman" vs "claim to identify as woman"? - presumably with some kind of "reasonableness" criterion just like the rest of the law.
It's been my observation that those who work hardest, and have the most skill either don't care about politics at all, or they like Trump.
When I'm around selfish Trump supporters, I clam up because it's not the kind of conversation I'd have with work colleagues. (at least I would in Europe, just not here in the US). I wonder if that's why you've encountered colleagues who seem to "not care about politics"? Actually, I'm also pretty much silent when with anyone from the intolerant extremes, left or right, because the likelihood of fruitful discussion is so low and the likelihood of vexation is so high.
I understand the populist Left, but they have yet to propose anything that benefits me as a common programmer and knowledge worker personally.
You know what -- who cares about you? I'm a programmer too, doing very well myself, and I'm going to vote for the candidate who helps those worse off than me, even at my personal expense, because they're the ones who need the help. You could put down your Ayn Rand and think about doing the same!
Then there are foreigners who barely master the language. They can pick their way through a menu - but the voice system fail to understand them.
It was the "foreigner" aspect that actually persuaded me about the merits of bots. I was completely skeptical when Facebook first started talking about bots as a platform, and kind of dismayed that so much of BUILD was focused on bots. But then the Indian guy came on to do an interview and talked about his grandmother who's still kind of bewildered by web pages, and mouse, and clicking on stuff, and the web era has kind of passed her by. But he said that what she does understand is SMS texts. And he said think too of the large parts of the world for which SMS is the primary form of "communication technology", not the web. So figuring out how to have an information-dense and easy-to-author way of setting up SMS servers, and coding their dialogues, seemed useful.
"I'd like a large pepperoni pizza with extra mushrooms delivered to my home". That's a bot conversation you could have in 5 seconds that'd be faster than clicking on a load of dropdowns and waiting for a couple of page-loads.
"Select all damaged tanks onscreen. Retreat." That's a bot voice command you could give in an RTS in 2 seconds that would be faster than selecting them all with the mouse and clicking on appropriate destinations.
I think bots are *possible* that are faster than anything else, so long as they're good enough at NLP. I guess that's why Microsoft spent so much time talking about the language smarts of the platform.
As to whether it will actually work out? Will bot developers go the extra mile this generation? That remains to be seen.
How is that not rendered obsolete by one of those thingies you stick to the side of a standard 80" TV to make it tactile-like? I don't see what this gargantuan iPad adds to a system built on: - a very large cheap tv. - one of those side-sensor thingies. - simple software to coalesce the image and sensor output.
That completely misses the point. It's the simplicity of connectivity. If existing remote-working solutions result in folks faffing about on average for 10 minutes before they get connected up properly, and this device reduces the faffing about to less than 10 seconds, then it's a huge win.
(I've only used a surface hub once. Although I was the first person in the room with the hub, it already knew which meeting was going to take place thanks to Exchange synchronization because the meeting room had been booked through Outlook. The surface hub had already connected, and was already staring into the remote room with audio and video all working.)
But if ocean temperatures (which are rising) are the indicator to this prediction, you folks in the east had best be getting ready for more frequent, longer, and hotter heat waves.
Read the article. They weren't looking just at "how high are ocean temperatures". They were looking at a specific pattern where the ocean was warmer than usual in one part of the ocean while cooler than usual in another part of the ocean, and these pair of things predicted the heat wave.
"Inclusive avatars" itself makes sense if the software's purpose supports it. Mass Effect Andromeda has no reason to avoid having a black female option for the new Shepherd. Witcher 3, a game based on Slavic mythology does. You aren't going to find a lot of diversity in that universe except on the distant periphery. Seeing a black person in such a game without a damn good reason for their inclusion would harm suspension of disbelief.
There was (what I thought) a pretty solid response to precisely your point at the recent GDC. The speaker said to beware the "Authenticity Trap"...
Recognizing that authenticity and accuracy are not end goals in themselves for videogames. This appertains particularly to the “but it’s based on Medieval Europe!” Trope, used to justify everything from rank sexism to an absence of non-white characters. Put another way, authenticity and accuracy are multifaceted; there are plenty of authentic ways of representing the past that are inclusive. People of color, women, and queer folks did exist in the past, after all. In Jayanth’s efficient phrase, “respectfulness is the opposite of nostalgia.” Nostalgia for an imagined history can often obviate humane characterization and originality alike.
Don’t squander the opportunity to do something new.
“Stories are suppressed because they are dangerous,” Jayanth said. “Let’s not fall into the trap of thinking that because diversity is a moral good that it is boring.”
Git, OTOH, can suck my balls. Git is made for distributed and/or non-organized (which is not the same as "disorganized") development. Corporate dev shops don't work that way, and shouldn't work that way. For an organization doing development, it's far more suitable to use SVN or TFS or Perforce or something like these.
That said, all of Microsoft's.NET team (C#, VB,.NET framework,.NET runtime) are doing their work in the open on GitHub. The team really appreciate the GitHub workflow, issue-tracking, openness.
If revenue from taxes gets disbursed to the public, but also costs to companies get passed on to the public
-- then that's not an argument either way! It says things balance out so there's no net advantage or disadvantage. Therefore your CEO, if honest, would have had no beef with higher taxes.
Of course this analysis and your CEOs characterization omit the redistributive effect, which is kind of the central point of taxes, which make it a dumb characterization.
Just give me data and let me decide how I use it. If I use 5GB/month streaming on my 75" TV, why should I get throttled while someone use 5GB/month downloading apps from the play store doesn't?
Here's the data...
TMobile: this operator gives really low cost dataplans for folks using 5GB/month which it achieves by limiting the quality of what people watch on their 75" TV over their cellphone.
ATT, Verizon: these operators give more expensive dataplans for folks using 5GB/month, to subsidize the folks with 75" TVs connected to their cellphones, and who have the option to chose the quality of their streaming themselves by clicking on the "high-def" or "standard-def" button in their video-player.
It's up to you how you use this data! I've used it by switching to a low-cost prepaid TMobile plan.
The bitrate needed is independant of the screen size. Also some people may connect their phone to a 75" TV. So in short, lame excuse for a net neutrality violation.
If the cost of me being able to get a good dataplan for $25/month is that you have to use Comcast rather than TMobile to stream to your 75" TV -- well, I think it's a price worth paying!
Li will eventually learn to manipulate the machine; it's *very* intelligent, but not creative or insightful.
Not creative? That's your opinion. Here are what other people (including serious Go professionals) think...
"AlphaGo met Lee’s solid, prudent play with a creativity and flexibility that surprised professional commentators" - https://gogameguru.com/alphago...
An Youngil (8d) wrote of AlphaGo playing Black: "Black 13 was creative... Black 37 was a rare and intriguing shoulder hit... Black 151, 157 and 159 were brilliant moves, and the game was practically decided by 165... AlphaGo’s style of play in the opening seems creative! Black 13, 15, 29 and 37 were very unusual moves." -- https://gogameguru.com/alphago...
Redmond (9d) wrote "I was impressed with AlphaGo’s play. There was a great beauty to the opening... It was a beautiful, innovative game.... AlphaGo started with some very unusual looking moves... It played this shoulder-hit here which was a very innovative move... I really liked the way it played in the opening, because I wasn't so impressed about the orthodox October games, but now it's playing a much more interesting exciting game." -- http://googleasiapacific.blogs...
Anders Kierulf (3d, creator of SmartGo) wrote: "The peep at move 15: This is usually played much later in the game, and never without first extending on the bottom. AlphaGo don’t care. It adds 29 later, and makes the whole thing work with the creative shoulder hit of 37... AlphaGo don’t care, it just builds up its framework, and then shows a lot of flexibility in where it ends up with territory." -- http://www.smartgo.com/blog/al...
Maybe you start with a philosophical axiom that "a computer can by definition never be considered creative". That's fair enough, but it's not the way that the Go playing community use the word "creative".
Why does everyone think Apple has to create anything new? They already have the ability to do what the FBI wants. It's not a backdoor, it's not something they have to use on every phone...it's a simple code adjustment to turn off the poison pill and can easily be pushed to this one single phone.
FBI is also asking for the ability to enter PIN codes over the lightning cable or over bluetooth. This functionality isn't present at all. Apple would have to invent a new handshake/protocol/whatever for it.
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In addition, we assume that the lab is similar enough to real world so that we know how much we are polluting.
If either of those assumptions are false, it indicates a bad lab condition set up which needs to be fixed. But that is not the fault of the car companies, but instead the fault of the politicians and scientists that designed the lab.
Whenever you test for something that's a proxy for the truth you want, rather than as good a measure as you can get for the actual truth, then you're introducing a disconnect. It's like how teachers are incentivized to "teach to the test" rather than teach their subjects.
Once you've done this, it's inevitable that folks will discover the cracks and exploit them. You're specifically rewarding this behavior.
Someone's looking for funding. Stay away, as this technology is no where near being useful.
Seriously? This work, and the previous work by the same U.W. lab, look to me like one of the most exciting future developments.
Maybe I'm just too excited from the sci-fi books I read where they have "motes", tiny little sensors all over a room or building or landscape, that pick up anything and everything. We're not going to power those things with batteries. Every single one will have to harvest what it can from radio waves, eke out enough to do a small amount of computing, and crucially get a "free" way to send signals back to the base station. This article describes getting enough power from an RFID scanner to power a bluetooth radio; the previous research was about passive wi-fi.
Nowhere near being useful? It honestly sounds to me like this lab is either almost there, or already there, on the radio side. I don't know how far they've come on the "sensor" side (camera / audio).
The author's paper on the EM-drive is here: http://arxiv.org/abs/1604.0344...
I was interested to read that he claims his theory also explains galactic rotation without the need for dark matter, and it explains cosmic acceleration without the need for dark energy. Neither of those can be experimentally verified, so he's pretty excited to have an actual experiment to test his theories.
The cheapest low-speed Comcast plan I can get is $70/month all-up, about $850/year.
If I were making $50k/year, spending $45k on basic necessities like housing, food, clothes and school stuff for my kids -- then no way would Comcast be a good use of 20% of my disposable income. No way!
I'm on tmobile paying $40/month for the same plan as yours, except I get 3gb/month high speed data to your 2mb, and mine doesn't roll over.
Just checking that you're aware of this cheaper plan?
What if you only copy things after the 14 + 14 year duration that US copyright law originally had?
If you support copyright as originally laid down, and obey it, but think that the copyright contract between public and producers has been unilaterally and unfairly altered to the detriment of the public?
Are you still a hypocrite then?
Is there a better way to find out what sex (if any) someone identifies with than listening to their claims?
I think there is a better way that gives trans people a better deal than they get currently, and stops the silly hysteria about rapists claiming to be female to get into female restrooms &c.
(1) Listen to the customer's claims
(2) If the service provider doesn't believe the customer's claims, then decline service
(3) If the customer feels that they were unfairly declined service, then sue the service provider on the grounds that the customer *does* identify as female, and the terms of service say that service will be granted to anyone who identifies as female.
When it comes to court, the customer can win their case by proving that they identify as female; the service provider can win their case by proving that they don't. It'll be a civil case and so has "balance of probability" rules.
How will it be proved? The definition of "identify as" is that it's a deeply held psychological certainty. Both sides will get expert psychological experts, and prior behavior evidence, and testimonies from folks surrounding them. Whoever persuades the judge or jury on balance of probability that they're right, will win. If it's the customer who wins, then the service provider will naturally adjust their practices.
This will "just work" for most customers including most trans customers. For the minority who are refused service, it will be distressing, but will be a typical distress in a much wider sea of worse distresses.
That doesn't work...
By definition you can't "decide to" identify as something. Identity is a deep innate psychological thing.
Sure you can CLAIM to identify as a woman. But that's a very different thing.
How can someone make rules that distinguish "identify as woman" vs "claim to identify as woman"? - presumably with some kind of "reasonableness" criterion just like the rest of the law.
I though rules were generally phrased in terms of how you *identify*, not how you *claim to identify* ?
You can't do it indefinitely because your childcare costs will increase exponentially while your salary remains constant.
Creating a new account on Windows 10 REQUIRES an e-mail address at Outlook.com
No it doesn't. You can use any email address. Lots of folks use gmail addresses.
It's been my observation that those who work hardest, and have the most skill either don't care about politics at all, or they like Trump.
When I'm around selfish Trump supporters, I clam up because it's not the kind of conversation I'd have with work colleagues. (at least I would in Europe, just not here in the US). I wonder if that's why you've encountered colleagues who seem to "not care about politics"? Actually, I'm also pretty much silent when with anyone from the intolerant extremes, left or right, because the likelihood of fruitful discussion is so low and the likelihood of vexation is so high.
I understand the populist Left, but they have yet to propose anything that benefits me as a common programmer and knowledge worker personally.
You know what -- who cares about you? I'm a programmer too, doing very well myself, and I'm going to vote for the candidate who helps those worse off than me, even at my personal expense, because they're the ones who need the help. You could put down your Ayn Rand and think about doing the same!
Then there are foreigners who barely master the language. They can pick their way through a menu - but the voice system fail to understand them.
It was the "foreigner" aspect that actually persuaded me about the merits of bots. I was completely skeptical when Facebook first started talking about bots as a platform, and kind of dismayed that so much of BUILD was focused on bots. But then the Indian guy came on to do an interview and talked about his grandmother who's still kind of bewildered by web pages, and mouse, and clicking on stuff, and the web era has kind of passed her by. But he said that what she does understand is SMS texts. And he said think too of the large parts of the world for which SMS is the primary form of "communication technology", not the web. So figuring out how to have an information-dense and easy-to-author way of setting up SMS servers, and coding their dialogues, seemed useful.
"I'd like a large pepperoni pizza with extra mushrooms delivered to my home". That's a bot conversation you could have in 5 seconds that'd be faster than clicking on a load of dropdowns and waiting for a couple of page-loads.
"Select all damaged tanks onscreen. Retreat." That's a bot voice command you could give in an RTS in 2 seconds that would be faster than selecting them all with the mouse and clicking on appropriate destinations.
I think bots are *possible* that are faster than anything else, so long as they're good enough at NLP. I guess that's why Microsoft spent so much time talking about the language smarts of the platform.
As to whether it will actually work out? Will bot developers go the extra mile this generation? That remains to be seen.
How is that not rendered obsolete by one of those thingies you stick to the side of a standard 80" TV to make it tactile-like? I don't see what this gargantuan iPad adds to a system built on: - a very large cheap tv. - one of those side-sensor thingies. - simple software to coalesce the image and sensor output.
That completely misses the point. It's the simplicity of connectivity. If existing remote-working solutions result in folks faffing about on average for 10 minutes before they get connected up properly, and this device reduces the faffing about to less than 10 seconds, then it's a huge win.
(I've only used a surface hub once. Although I was the first person in the room with the hub, it already knew which meeting was going to take place thanks to Exchange synchronization because the meeting room had been booked through Outlook. The surface hub had already connected, and was already staring into the remote room with audio and video all working.)
But if ocean temperatures (which are rising) are the indicator to this prediction, you folks in the east had best be getting ready for more frequent, longer, and hotter heat waves.
Read the article. They weren't looking just at "how high are ocean temperatures". They were looking at a specific pattern where the ocean was warmer than usual in one part of the ocean while cooler than usual in another part of the ocean, and these pair of things predicted the heat wave.
"Inclusive avatars" itself makes sense if the software's purpose supports it. Mass Effect Andromeda has no reason to avoid having a black female option for the new Shepherd. Witcher 3, a game based on Slavic mythology does. You aren't going to find a lot of diversity in that universe except on the distant periphery. Seeing a black person in such a game without a damn good reason for their inclusion would harm suspension of disbelief.
There was (what I thought) a pretty solid response to precisely your point at the recent GDC. The speaker said to beware the "Authenticity Trap"...
Recognizing that authenticity and accuracy are not end goals in themselves for videogames. This appertains particularly to the “but it’s based on Medieval Europe!” Trope, used to justify everything from rank sexism to an absence of non-white characters. Put another way, authenticity and accuracy are multifaceted; there are plenty of authentic ways of representing the past that are inclusive. People of color, women, and queer folks did exist in the past, after all. In Jayanth’s efficient phrase, “respectfulness is the opposite of nostalgia.” Nostalgia for an imagined history can often obviate humane characterization and originality alike.
Don’t squander the opportunity to do something new.
“Stories are suppressed because they are dangerous,” Jayanth said. “Let’s not fall into the trap of thinking that because diversity is a moral good that it is boring.”
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/...
And on a mac laptop, sleep and hibernate and resume always work.
Git, OTOH, can suck my balls. Git is made for distributed and/or non-organized (which is not the same as "disorganized") development. Corporate dev shops don't work that way, and shouldn't work that way. For an organization doing development, it's far more suitable to use SVN or TFS or Perforce or something like these.
That said, all of Microsoft's .NET team (C#, VB, .NET framework, .NET runtime) are doing their work in the open on GitHub. The team really appreciate the GitHub workflow, issue-tracking, openness.
If revenue from taxes gets disbursed to the public, but also costs to companies get passed on to the public
-- then that's not an argument either way! It says things balance out so there's no net advantage or disadvantage. Therefore your CEO, if honest, would have had no beef with higher taxes.
Of course this analysis and your CEOs characterization omit the redistributive effect, which is kind of the central point of taxes, which make it a dumb characterization.
Just give me data and let me decide how I use it. If I use 5GB/month streaming on my 75" TV, why should I get throttled while someone use 5GB/month downloading apps from the play store doesn't?
Here's the data...
TMobile: this operator gives really low cost dataplans for folks using 5GB/month which it achieves by limiting the quality of what people watch on their 75" TV over their cellphone.
ATT, Verizon: these operators give more expensive dataplans for folks using 5GB/month, to subsidize the folks with 75" TVs connected to their cellphones, and who have the option to chose the quality of their streaming themselves by clicking on the "high-def" or "standard-def" button in their video-player.
It's up to you how you use this data! I've used it by switching to a low-cost prepaid TMobile plan.
The bitrate needed is independant of the screen size. Also some people may connect their phone to a 75" TV. So in short, lame excuse for a net neutrality violation.
If the cost of me being able to get a good dataplan for $25/month is that you have to use Comcast rather than TMobile to stream to your 75" TV -- well, I think it's a price worth paying!
Li will eventually learn to manipulate the machine; it's *very* intelligent, but not creative or insightful.
Not creative? That's your opinion. Here are what other people (including serious Go professionals) think...
"AlphaGo met Lee’s solid, prudent play with a creativity and flexibility that surprised professional commentators" - https://gogameguru.com/alphago...
An Youngil (8d) wrote of AlphaGo playing Black: "Black 13 was creative ... Black 37 was a rare and intriguing shoulder hit ... Black 151, 157 and 159 were brilliant moves, and the game was practically decided by 165 ... AlphaGo’s style of play in the opening seems creative! Black 13, 15, 29 and 37 were very unusual moves." -- https://gogameguru.com/alphago...
Redmond (9d) wrote "I was impressed with AlphaGo’s play. There was a great beauty to the opening ... It was a beautiful, innovative game. ... AlphaGo started with some very unusual looking moves ... It played this shoulder-hit here which was a very innovative move ... I really liked the way it played in the opening, because I wasn't so impressed about the orthodox October games, but now it's playing a much more interesting exciting game." -- http://googleasiapacific.blogs...
Anders Kierulf (3d, creator of SmartGo) wrote: "The peep at move 15: This is usually played much later in the game, and never without first extending on the bottom. AlphaGo don’t care. It adds 29 later, and makes the whole thing work with the creative shoulder hit of 37 ... AlphaGo don’t care, it just builds up its framework, and then shows a lot of flexibility in where it ends up with territory." -- http://www.smartgo.com/blog/al...
Maybe you start with a philosophical axiom that "a computer can by definition never be considered creative". That's fair enough, but it's not the way that the Go playing community use the word "creative".
Why do you say that? The commentators all described AlphaGo as "creative". If you think it wasn't, I'd love to know why.
Why does everyone think Apple has to create anything new? They already have the ability to do what the FBI wants. It's not a backdoor, it's not something they have to use on every phone...it's a simple code adjustment to turn off the poison pill and can easily be pushed to this one single phone.
FBI is also asking for the ability to enter PIN codes over the lightning cable or over bluetooth. This functionality isn't present at all. Apple would have to invent a new handshake/protocol/whatever for it.