Except that, by any objective measure, the news is NOT negative. The world is most peaceful.
No. You are confusing what is happening, the facts with the news. At the moment, the news may very well be the worst of all times, even if the facts aren't.
If you think that the reality of what is happening in the world is mostly negative, you should reconsider your news sources, and get a more balanced perspective.
The OP's personal source of news is irrelevant in this discussion. Bad news sells better than good news, even for the NYT and the WSJ. As TFA puts it "...they have an incentive to pursue alarmist stories that generate clicks."
Very true. The vector thing was the brain child of Oliver Heaviside. As much as I appreciate Maxwell, it is sad to see that Heaviside, one of the few people that understood Maxwell`s work, and the one who gave the equations their current, familiar form -while on the fly inventing vector calculus- is virtually unknown, even on/.
there isn't such a thing as a "revolution" and "geniuses" in science.
There may be no geniuses, but there certainly are revolutions in scientific advancement, typically called "paradigm shifts"
There was a time people believed combustion was "phlogiston" exiting the material; blood was generated and consumed in the body (not circulated); the Sun revolved around the Earth; mice could be "created" by leaving some food and rags alone in a bucket in a barn for a few days, while fly maggots were "generated" in meat. Around Maxwell`s days it was believed aether was needed for the propagation of electromagnetic waves and the age of the Earth was under estimated because the radio active processes preventing a more rapid cooling down were unknown.
All of these ideas were eventually discarded through a process that was not incremental, but revolutionary.
Anti-aliasing is not "providing data that is not actually there", anti-aliasing is removing data that is actually not there, more specifically high-frequency aliases of the low-frequency information. Hence the name anti-aliasing. In practice, this means that the best any algorithm can do to improve a (general) blocky image, is smooth the edges of the blocks. What this algorithm apparently does, as far as I understand, is just correlate the blocky image to a library of known facial features. This has nothing to do with FFT or anti-aliasing whatsoever.
Apart from that, unless your name is "M", I am afraid
I know this because I am friends with both of the "B"s in BBM.
Politicians will lie by very rarely will they straight up deny an easily demonstrated fact. If you allow straight up fiction to become the historical record then you're allowing someone to write their own history.
Indeed. America, please stop supporting this "the emperor's new clothes" bullshit. "Alternative facts" are no facts. A schoolkid would be slapped in the face for telling such nonsense, but apparently coming from the White House this becomes acceptable or what???
And I do not even intend to attack the US here. To use a more patriottic twist: did the first nation to put a man on the moon do so by inventing facts? By pretending the moon is only a few miles away (insofar as there is room with this apparent abundance of asteroids there)? Is this how the master negotiator will deal with Putin? By not even acknowledging the simplest and unambiguous of observations??? Because that is the problem: you may pretend all you want, if the other party does not go with your delusion, it buys you nothing but mockery.
If I were an American, I would be infuriated with a president that makes us the laughingstock for the rest of the world. Your country deserves better.
This! I don't want vinyl, what I want is a digital download of the master used to produce the vinyl. The one that doesn't have to compete in the loudness wars and isn't compressed all to hell.
IIRC this is exactly what Neil Young's pono player was offering, which was confused by other top musicians that heard it with the pono player technically being superior to CD and SACD.
Screw your "regardless." Honest people wouldn't have taken it. Same as I should be able to leave my doors unlocked and not have strangers walk into my home and take stuff.
Yes and no. You are right in that the victim of these offenses is not guilty of these offenses.
The OP is right in that a security expert should typically not be the type of person to rely on the honest intentions of others. On the contrary: these people's work is exactly to anticipate criminal behaviour and try to prevent it as much a possible. This is the very reason "security" was invented in the first place.
I don't understand exactly how they violated any 'mutual obligation'. Ivey and Cheng made certain requests of the casino about how they would like to play.
It was their obligation to lose. And they didn't, goddamit!
When you play baccarat, you are playing against other customers, never the Casino's money.
Not according to TFA, stating that "Bond was shown playing a baccarat relative called chemin de fer, in which players bet against each other instead of the house.) " suggesting that the baccarat described here does not involve betting against other players.
IMHO solving this problem requires a philosopher, not a scientist. I would not be surprised if it could be proven -Goedel-style- that "breaking out of the simulation" is theoretically impossible.
As Linus expects others to write proper code, I expect people to conduct proper communication.
While I agree completely with what you say, Linus may be more important that you are and therefore his expectations may be more important than yours as well (in internet-slang: may be given more fucks about than yours). Mozart. McEnroe. Maria Callas... Their game, their terms.
The idea that you could react faster or make a better critical decision than the computer is sort of funny actually.
Your reaction to this article is also sort funny. The situation you describe, with the computer making faster and better decisions, is what you expect to happen. A desirable output. And most of the time this is what WILL happen.
However, in liability issues we are not interested in the desired result. We are interested in failures. When things go wrong in whatever imaginable or unimaginable way. As this Volvo CTO seems to be more aware of than you, this WILL happen some day. That will most likely be the same day that the GP's prediction comes true, and Volco announces it doesn't count as a flaw in their system.
Cannabis don't have to be smoked, it can be eaten. Peoples with psychiatric problem are more prone to substance abuse. The 1950 have called and they want their debunked argument back.
As much as I would like it to be different, the GP's claim is not unreasonable.
From the npr.org: 'There have been nine studies following hundreds to thousands of people for decades looking for a connection between marijuana use and psychosis. All but one of these studies suggest that marijuana use is associated with schizophrenia. Sir Robin Murray, a psychiatrist at King's College in London, says that evidence changed his mind about weed. "Even I, 20 years ago, used to tell patients that cannabis is safe. It's only after you see all the patients that go psychotic that you realize – it's not so safe."'
I'm really tired of both this/.-oriented "how to get more X to code", X=women, girls, schoolchildren, infants, babies,...
and this never-ending "equality" BS. There could, almost be definition, be no other place than open source more inviting for people to enter. If they don't, it means they don't want to, and people are seeing problems where there aren't any
A LOT of energy could be diverted to other REAL issues, including misogynistic issues like: helping victims of domestic violence, changing popular (rap) culture that objectifies girls as disposable sluts, idolatry of the beauty ideal etc.
You know what's scary? That someone politely asks a question -which is completely on topic- and gets so much condescending flak about this. Not all nerds are html/scripting/ coding wizards. And maybe, maybe, sometimes non-nerds stroll here accidentally. Let's quickly chase them away!
Admiral Nimitz was once asked why he kept a picture of MacArthur in his office given that they never got along together
Somewhat besides the point, but writer Henrik Ibsen also had a portrait of his arch enemy, August Strindberg in his working room, to "show him [Strindberg] how well he was writing".
He is being threatened with being charged with making a hoax bomb after they clearly knew it wasn't a bomb (given the proposed charge).
Is wasn't even a hoax bomb. The student never even intended to pretend it was a bomb.
The story can be summarized as: folks imagine something done by a guy whose skin colour they don't like, and arrest him on the grounds of their assumptions instead of facts.
I don't understand the big push to get everyone to code -- not everyone *wants* to code, nor should they have to.
It is just a/. thing: every two weeks there is an article along the line of "how can we teach children to code", "how can we teach poor people to code", "why everyone should be a coder" etc. I know this is "news for nerds", but imho the (recent) emphasis on coding is over the top.
Coke and Mentos rockets are also cool nerd stuff, but those headlines have become very scarce.
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Except that, by any objective measure, the news is NOT negative. The world is most peaceful.
No. You are confusing what is happening, the facts with the news. At the moment, the news may very well be the worst of all times, even if the facts aren't.
If you think that the reality of what is happening in the world is mostly negative, you should reconsider your news sources, and get a more balanced perspective.
The OP's personal source of news is irrelevant in this discussion. Bad news sells better than good news, even for the NYT and the WSJ. As TFA puts it "...they have an incentive to pursue alarmist stories that generate clicks."
we could fill a library with books on substandard documentation
There is some irony in there somewhere...
Very true. The vector thing was the brain child of Oliver Heaviside. As much as I appreciate Maxwell, it is sad to see that Heaviside, one of the few people that understood Maxwell`s work, and the one who gave the equations their current, familiar form -while on the fly inventing vector calculus- is virtually unknown, even on /.
there isn't such a thing as a "revolution" and "geniuses" in science.
There may be no geniuses, but there certainly are revolutions in scientific advancement, typically called "paradigm shifts"
There was a time people believed combustion was "phlogiston" exiting the material; blood was generated and consumed in the body (not circulated); the Sun revolved around the Earth; mice could be "created" by leaving some food and rags alone in a bucket in a barn for a few days, while fly maggots were "generated" in meat. Around Maxwell`s days it was believed aether was needed for the propagation of electromagnetic waves and the age of the Earth was under estimated because the radio active processes preventing a more rapid cooling down were unknown.
All of these ideas were eventually discarded through a process that was not incremental, but revolutionary.
Yes, revolution exists in science!
How about: Bashful, Doc, Dopey, Happy, Sleepy, Sneezy and Grumpy?
Get it over with and call them Achel, Chimay, Orval, Rochefort, Westmalle, Westvleteren and La Trappe already!
Anything else would be blasphemy. Yes, I am Belgian. :-)
Anti-aliasing is not "providing data that is not actually there", anti-aliasing is removing data that is actually not there, more specifically high-frequency aliases of the low-frequency information. Hence the name anti-aliasing.
In practice, this means that the best any algorithm can do to improve a (general) blocky image, is smooth the edges of the blocks. What this algorithm apparently does, as far as I understand, is just correlate the blocky image to a library of known facial features. This has nothing to do with FFT or anti-aliasing whatsoever.
Apart from that, unless your name is "M", I am afraid
I know this because I am friends with both of the "B"s in BBM.
doesn't really mean anything.
Yeah, and I'm sure Dr Dre was deeply involved in the electronic and acoustic design of them!
TBH, you cannot expect a surgeon to be an expert at acoustic design as well.
Also, who -apart from engineers and physicists- knows Tesla? I would think more people know about the electrical cars than about the inventor.
Politicians will lie by very rarely will they straight up deny an easily demonstrated fact. If you allow straight up fiction to become the historical record then you're allowing someone to write their own history.
Indeed. America, please stop supporting this "the emperor's new clothes" bullshit. "Alternative facts" are no facts. A schoolkid would be slapped in the face for telling such nonsense, but apparently coming from the White House this becomes acceptable or what???
And I do not even intend to attack the US here. To use a more patriottic twist: did the first nation to put a man on the moon do so by inventing facts? By pretending the moon is only a few miles away (insofar as there is room with this apparent abundance of asteroids there)? Is this how the master negotiator will deal with Putin? By not even acknowledging the simplest and unambiguous of observations??? Because that is the problem: you may pretend all you want, if the other party does not go with your delusion, it buys you nothing but mockery.
If I were an American, I would be infuriated with a president that makes us the laughingstock for the rest of the world. Your country deserves better.
This! I don't want vinyl, what I want is a digital download of the master used to produce the vinyl. The one that doesn't have to compete in the loudness wars and isn't compressed all to hell.
IIRC this is exactly what Neil Young's pono player was offering, which was confused by other top musicians that heard it with the pono player technically being superior to CD and SACD.
Screw your "regardless." Honest people wouldn't have taken it. Same as I should be able to leave my doors unlocked and not have strangers walk into my home and take stuff.
Yes and no. You are right in that the victim of these offenses is not guilty of these offenses.
The OP is right in that a security expert should typically not be the type of person to rely on the honest intentions of others. On the contrary: these people's work is exactly to anticipate criminal behaviour and try to prevent it as much a possible. This is the very reason "security" was invented in the first place.
So you are comparing apples and oranges here.
There's no way that the majority of librarians are qualified to teach programming.
Apparently rationale behind this is librarians are boring and computer programmers are also boring.
I don't understand exactly how they violated any 'mutual obligation'. Ivey and Cheng made certain requests of the casino about how they would like to play.
It was their obligation to lose. And they didn't, goddamit!
When you play baccarat, you are playing against other customers, never the Casino's money.
Not according to TFA, stating that "Bond was shown playing a baccarat relative called chemin de fer, in which players bet against each other instead of the house.) " suggesting that the baccarat described here does not involve betting against other players.
IMHO solving this problem requires a philosopher, not a scientist. I would not be surprised if it could be proven -Goedel-style- that "breaking out of the simulation" is theoretically impossible.
As Linus expects others to write proper code, I expect people to conduct proper communication.
While I agree completely with what you say, Linus may be more important that you are and therefore his expectations may be more important than yours as well (in internet-slang: may be given more fucks about than yours).
Mozart. McEnroe. Maria Callas... Their game, their terms.
The idea that you could react faster or make a better critical decision than the computer is sort of funny actually.
Your reaction to this article is also sort funny. The situation you describe, with the computer making faster and better decisions, is what you expect to happen. A desirable output. And most of the time this is what WILL happen.
However, in liability issues we are not interested in the desired result. We are interested in failures. When things go wrong in whatever imaginable or unimaginable way. As this Volvo CTO seems to be more aware of than you, this WILL happen some day. That will most likely be the same day that the GP's prediction comes true, and Volco announces it doesn't count as a flaw in their system.
(admittedly, a bit further in the article, it is mentioned that the relation is not neccesarily causal -my bad)
Cannabis don't have to be smoked, it can be eaten. Peoples with psychiatric problem are more prone to substance abuse. The 1950 have called and they want their debunked argument back.
As much as I would like it to be different, the GP's claim is not unreasonable.
From the npr.org:
'There have been nine studies following hundreds to thousands of people for decades looking for a connection between marijuana use and psychosis. All but one of these studies suggest that marijuana use is associated with schizophrenia. Sir Robin Murray, a psychiatrist at King's College in London, says that evidence changed his mind about weed. "Even I, 20 years ago, used to tell patients that cannabis is safe. It's only after you see all the patients that go psychotic that you realize – it's not so safe."'
just stop
Completely.
I'm really tired of both this /.-oriented "how to get more X to code", X=women, girls, schoolchildren, infants, babies,...
and this never-ending "equality" BS. There could, almost be definition, be no other place than open source more inviting for people to enter. If they don't, it means they don't want to, and people are seeing problems where there aren't any
A LOT of energy could be diverted to other REAL issues, including misogynistic issues like: helping victims of domestic violence, changing popular (rap) culture that objectifies girls as disposable sluts, idolatry of the beauty ideal etc.
"why would someone pay when Google News is free?"
Why indeed, when /. readers rather discuss about semantics of piracy and theft, than financially reward someone's hard work.
You know what's scary? That someone politely asks a question -which is completely on topic- and gets so much condescending flak about this. Not all nerds are html/scripting/ coding wizards.
And maybe, maybe, sometimes non-nerds stroll here accidentally. Let's quickly chase them away!
Admiral Nimitz was once asked why he kept a picture of MacArthur in his office given that they never got along together
Somewhat besides the point, but writer Henrik Ibsen also had a portrait of his arch enemy, August Strindberg in his working room, to "show him [Strindberg] how well he was writing".
He is being threatened with being charged with making a hoax bomb after they clearly knew it wasn't a bomb (given the proposed charge).
Is wasn't even a hoax bomb. The student never even intended to pretend it was a bomb.
The story can be summarized as: folks imagine something done by a guy whose skin colour they don't like, and arrest him on the grounds of their assumptions instead of facts.
I don't understand the big push to get everyone to code -- not everyone *wants* to code, nor should they have to.
It is just a /. thing: every two weeks there is an article along the line of "how can we teach children to code", "how can we teach poor people to code", "why everyone should be a coder" etc. I know this is "news for nerds", but imho the (recent) emphasis on coding is over the top.
Coke and Mentos rockets are also cool nerd stuff, but those headlines have become very scarce.