This discussion seems one-sided, so here's another point of view:
In the past I would forget to change the clocks the night before, and I once missed an airplane because of it. But now I go to bed and the next morning all the clocks and notifications have changed on their own, and other than the sun going down earlier or later I just don't notice it.
It's amazing to me that one hour more or less of sleep twice a year gets people so messed up. Surely I'm not the only one who feels this way.
There is nothing as energy dense, convenient, safe, and inexpensive as hydrocarbons.
Hydrocarbons are only inexpensive if you discount the externalities. The actual damage to the environment inherent in burning hydrocarbons is quite expensive.
I was under the impression that these far-field voice assistants required an array of microphones to do things like beam forming, noise reduction, acoustic echo cancellation, etc. The Amazon Echo has 7 microphones in a ring.
So there's either more than one hidden microphone or Google is rolling out a feature that's not really going to work well for voice assistance. I have to wonder what the real purpose of this update is.
The article describes a robot that can model itself physically.
The more interesting exploration would involve the robot modelling its own internal state. At that point a closed feedback loop could be initiated with the model informing the system about itself which in turn informs and becomes part of the model.
If the model becomes good enough, the system might eventually develop the illusion that its embedded model is actually itself. At least that seems to be what happened with the majority of humans.
They could have used the "white genocide conspiracy theory" selector to flood them with counter-propaganda advertising. Seems like a missed opportunity here.
I'm personally disappointed that Apple is dropping the SE. For me it's the perfect size, and the screen has a bevel so that I don't trigger unintended touches just trying to pick it up. There's the standard headphone jack so I can listen to music with decent headphones I already own, even while it's charging. It's also fairly reasonably priced, runs ARKit, and is supported by the latest iOS releases. Damn fine phone.
I wonder if soon all photographic, video, and audio recording devices will be required to incorporate hardened individual hardware certificates that can sign all the recordings that particular device creates. At least in that case it seems it would be possible to verify that a particular portion of unedited source material was recorded directly by a specific device without any additional manipulation, which could be useful in legal, political, or scientific contexts where verification of origin is required.
Assuming AI == neural networks here, this is a known fundamental limitation. A neural network makes the decisions that it does based on weights on the connections between the nodes. These weights are computed in an iterative feedback process that converges toward values that produce the desired results. There is no way to interrogate such a mechanism to determine "why" a certain decision is made.
To me it has to be either autonomous or not. If semi-autonomous driving requires you to be engaged and alert with both hands on the wheel, ready to take control at any time, then what's the point? How is it different from regular non-autonomous driving? Can anyone share their experience?
The proposed US legislation looks weak compared to the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Why should people in the US have weaker protection? Facebook and other data collectors should be required to conform to a GDPR equivalent in the US and North America.
It appears to be some sort of subvocal recognition. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... has a bit about the subject, but with no citations to the research.
The fundamental unexamined assumption these people are making is that the state of a person can be frozen statically. There is just as much evidence that the state of consciousness is dynamic, encoded in the flows of waves of currents in the brain.
Trying to capture the state of consciousness of a person with a static material representation would be like trying to freeze a candle flame. The flame doesn't exist without the dynamic combustion process and the flow of hot gases that feed it.
I moved to San Francisco in the mid-90's for the culture, politics, and community. I did have a job waiting for me in Silicon Valley, but I was determined to not make it the sole focus of my life.
Now, many of my newer neighbors just hate it here. Their focus is solely on the job and the money they're making. They only want to make their first or second million and then get the hell out.
It would not be possible if your Javascript code ran exactly as you intended it to run. But the crux of the issue, from the Spectre paper, is this:
Software isolation techniques are extremely widely deployed under a variety of names, including sandboxing, process separation, containerization, memory safety,
proof-carrying code. A fundamental security assumption
underpinning all of these is that the CPU will faithfully
execute software, including its safety checks. Speculative execution unfortunately violates this assumption in
ways that allow adversaries to violate the secrecy (but
not integrity) of memory and register contents.
Mod parent up. If you're considered about identity fraud, a credit freeze is the way to go. Plus it's the only way to really get back at the credit bureaus. They hate credit freezes since it directly impacts their income. If you're not in the market for new credit, freeze it instead.
It's not just owners of private vehicles that are affected -- the Next Bus prediction system for the San Francisco MTA is now completely broken: https://www.sfmta.com/about-sf...
The Roku SoundBridge comes to mind. It was an iTunes DAAP client, requiring only a very simple setup to stream songs from an existing iTunes installation. But it was too difficult for the average consumer. Roku had better success with an Internet-radio focus on later versions of the SoundBridge, but they didn't really hit the jackpot until they expanded into video streaming.
Same story here with a Whirlpool HE front-loader. The washer quickly developed a moldy smell. The clothes often came out of the machine with completely dry spots because of inadequate water levels. It started leaking a few months ago. We replaced the logic board and the front door baffle only to have the problems return. All this despite taking all the preventative steps and using the recommended products as directed.
The service techs that came out to deal with the machine had the same story as well -- these front-loading HE washers just do not work due to the difficulty in meeting the new efficiency requirements, and the manufacturers will not design them to do so, since it would cut into their profit margins and reduce demand.
I am also now thinking of purchasing Speed Queen while they are still available.
Also notable -- there is a class-action lawsuit pending against Whirlpool, and it looks like it's getting some traction:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/da...
I'm not trying to troll here, but not being a Gmail user, I'm not sure how LinkedIn's scraping of email is any different than Google scraping it for advertising services. I understand that technically LinkedIn is acting as a proxy, and Google as an ISP, but how is the result any different?
While I'm sure it would allow customized algorithms, they would have to be rather unique to not be handled by the current state of geometry/vertex/fragment shaders. Are they thinking some of non-triangular geometry?
The FA mentions voxel rendering for Minecraft-type applications. Although volume rendering can be achieved with traditional hardware accelerated surface primitives, there are many algorithms that are more naturally described and implemented using data structures that don't translate so easily to hardware accelerated primitives.
Constructive solid geometry, vector based graphics, and ray tracing are also not such a nice fit to OpenGL and DirectX APIs. You don't always want to have to tessellate geometry that has an analytic expression, such as conics, rational quadratics, b-splines, and NURBS, so a more software-oriented approach can provide better renderings for those types of mathematical objects.
The challenge here is that graphics primitives that APIs such as OpenGL provide are of course those that the hardware can most readily accelerate. If you don't use primitives and operations that can be massively parallel then you may not get much use out of the hardware.
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This discussion seems one-sided, so here's another point of view:
In the past I would forget to change the clocks the night before, and I once missed an airplane because of it. But now I go to bed and the next morning all the clocks and notifications have changed on their own, and other than the sun going down earlier or later I just don't notice it.
It's amazing to me that one hour more or less of sleep twice a year gets people so messed up. Surely I'm not the only one who feels this way.
There is nothing as energy dense, convenient, safe, and inexpensive as hydrocarbons.
Hydrocarbons are only inexpensive if you discount the externalities. The actual damage to the environment inherent in burning hydrocarbons is quite expensive.
I was under the impression that these far-field voice assistants required an array of microphones to do things like beam forming, noise reduction, acoustic echo cancellation, etc. The Amazon Echo has 7 microphones in a ring.
So there's either more than one hidden microphone or Google is rolling out a feature that's not really going to work well for voice assistance. I have to wonder what the real purpose of this update is.
My ad-free decentralized open source Facebook replacement fantasy (FaceNet):
It wouldn't be free of cost, but it would be free in the broader sense, and that's a killer feature.
The article describes a robot that can model itself physically.
The more interesting exploration would involve the robot modelling its own internal state. At that point a closed feedback loop could be initiated with the model informing the system about itself which in turn informs and becomes part of the model.
If the model becomes good enough, the system might eventually develop the illusion that its embedded model is actually itself. At least that seems to be what happened with the majority of humans.
They could have used the "white genocide conspiracy theory" selector to flood them with counter-propaganda advertising. Seems like a missed opportunity here.
I'm personally disappointed that Apple is dropping the SE. For me it's the perfect size, and the screen has a bevel so that I don't trigger unintended touches just trying to pick it up. There's the standard headphone jack so I can listen to music with decent headphones I already own, even while it's charging. It's also fairly reasonably priced, runs ARKit, and is supported by the latest iOS releases. Damn fine phone.
I wonder if soon all photographic, video, and audio recording devices will be required to incorporate hardened individual hardware certificates that can sign all the recordings that particular device creates. At least in that case it seems it would be possible to verify that a particular portion of unedited source material was recorded directly by a specific device without any additional manipulation, which could be useful in legal, political, or scientific contexts where verification of origin is required.
Assuming AI == neural networks here, this is a known fundamental limitation. A neural network makes the decisions that it does based on weights on the connections between the nodes. These weights are computed in an iterative feedback process that converges toward values that produce the desired results. There is no way to interrogate such a mechanism to determine "why" a certain decision is made.
To me it has to be either autonomous or not. If semi-autonomous driving requires you to be engaged and alert with both hands on the wheel, ready to take control at any time, then what's the point? How is it different from regular non-autonomous driving? Can anyone share their experience?
The proposed US legislation looks weak compared to the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Why should people in the US have weaker protection? Facebook and other data collectors should be required to conform to a GDPR equivalent in the US and North America.
It appears to be some sort of subvocal recognition. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... has a bit about the subject, but with no citations to the research.
The fundamental unexamined assumption these people are making is that the state of a person can be frozen statically. There is just as much evidence that the state of consciousness is dynamic, encoded in the flows of waves of currents in the brain.
Trying to capture the state of consciousness of a person with a static material representation would be like trying to freeze a candle flame. The flame doesn't exist without the dynamic combustion process and the flow of hot gases that feed it.
I moved to San Francisco in the mid-90's for the culture, politics, and community. I did have a job waiting for me in Silicon Valley, but I was determined to not make it the sole focus of my life.
Now, many of my newer neighbors just hate it here. Their focus is solely on the job and the money they're making. They only want to make their first or second million and then get the hell out.
To which I must reply, please hurry!
preloaded with Chinese spyware you can't delete? Good old American NSA spyware is good enough for me!
Software isolation techniques are extremely widely deployed under a variety of names, including sandboxing, process separation, containerization, memory safety, proof-carrying code. A fundamental security assumption underpinning all of these is that the CPU will faithfully execute software, including its safety checks. Speculative execution unfortunately violates this assumption in ways that allow adversaries to violate the secrecy (but not integrity) of memory and register contents.
(Emphasis mine).
Another way to cripple Equifax is to freeze our credit reports, which denies Equifax the income it makes from charging corporations for our data.
Mod parent up. If you're considered about identity fraud, a credit freeze is the way to go. Plus it's the only way to really get back at the credit bureaus. They hate credit freezes since it directly impacts their income. If you're not in the market for new credit, freeze it instead.
It's not just owners of private vehicles that are affected -- the Next Bus prediction system for the San Francisco MTA is now completely broken: https://www.sfmta.com/about-sf...
The Roku SoundBridge comes to mind. It was an iTunes DAAP client, requiring only a very simple setup to stream songs from an existing iTunes installation. But it was too difficult for the average consumer. Roku had better success with an Internet-radio focus on later versions of the SoundBridge, but they didn't really hit the jackpot until they expanded into video streaming.
http://www.smbc-comics.com/ind...
Same story here with a Whirlpool HE front-loader. The washer quickly developed a moldy smell. The clothes often came out of the machine with completely dry spots because of inadequate water levels. It started leaking a few months ago. We replaced the logic board and the front door baffle only to have the problems return. All this despite taking all the preventative steps and using the recommended products as directed.
The service techs that came out to deal with the machine had the same story as well -- these front-loading HE washers just do not work due to the difficulty in meeting the new efficiency requirements, and the manufacturers will not design them to do so, since it would cut into their profit margins and reduce demand.
I am also now thinking of purchasing Speed Queen while they are still available.
Also notable -- there is a class-action lawsuit pending against Whirlpool, and it looks like it's getting some traction: http://www.forbes.com/sites/da...
"Self-driving car" is beginning to sound a lot like "horseless carriage". I would suggest "automobile" but that seems to be taken already...
I'm not trying to troll here, but not being a Gmail user, I'm not sure how LinkedIn's scraping of email is any different than Google scraping it for advertising services. I understand that technically LinkedIn is acting as a proxy, and Google as an ISP, but how is the result any different?
While I'm sure it would allow customized algorithms, they would have to be rather unique to not be handled by the current state of geometry/vertex/fragment shaders. Are they thinking some of non-triangular geometry?
The FA mentions voxel rendering for Minecraft-type applications. Although volume rendering can be achieved with traditional hardware accelerated surface primitives, there are many algorithms that are more naturally described and implemented using data structures that don't translate so easily to hardware accelerated primitives.
Constructive solid geometry, vector based graphics, and ray tracing are also not such a nice fit to OpenGL and DirectX APIs. You don't always want to have to tessellate geometry that has an analytic expression, such as conics, rational quadratics, b-splines, and NURBS, so a more software-oriented approach can provide better renderings for those types of mathematical objects.
The challenge here is that graphics primitives that APIs such as OpenGL provide are of course those that the hardware can most readily accelerate. If you don't use primitives and operations that can be massively parallel then you may not get much use out of the hardware.