I remember visiting Shanghai last year where they have a maglev that speeds you from the airport to just outside the city. I was told that a residential area was built along it but that the maglev generated a huge amount of vibration that affected people's health so they moved away. I don't know if this is apocryphal, but do wonder how much vibration the design will generate and how that would impact the environment, people living above it, cars driving on icy roads above it, etc.
I suppose there is the fantasy of your time becoming more valuable but then why not just accept fractional coin payments? And by saying "My time is your money" what happens if he has an accident or gets bored and stops the experiment? The value will fall since there will be no growth, unless he is able to cede control to some other organization. It seems to me the calculation is that the sum of the full value of all coins he has made are together an investment he has made in trying to advertise his ability as a consultant and experimentally launch a cryptocurrency that is based on something other than air (in this case, his time). Might be more valuable / get coopted by nefarious types if he asks other developers to join in.
I'd like to hear more technical information about the issue and whether there are steps that can be taken to reduce the risk of installing *any* antivirus software. Given that any such package is going to be targeted, perhaps we need to be able to run them in a kind of sandbox that would prevent dialing home and logging. More transparency about how it is being updated, and possibly providing a scanning api to allow the operating system or an open source application to take over document loading might be welcome regardless of the vendor. Currently it is my impression (have not researched it) that human readable update files are not provided, and at least in the past, Kaspersky apparently used your CPU to help crack difficult threats. I don't think anybody really believes they can trust antivirus software or any other software for that matter.
I googled niobium rarity and... http://www.businessinsider.com... Due to its relevance in aerospace and defense, Niobium is considered a “strategic metal” by the U.S. government, meaning there are few or no substitutes for the metal’s essential use. Furthermore, of all strategic metals, Niobium is regarded as one of the most highly critical. But its supplies are considered potentially at risk. This is because only a few sources throughout the world produce the metal. Almost 90% of the world supply comes from Brazil. Nearly all of that comes from only one mine. Most of the rest comes from the Canadian Niobec Mine, owned by IAMGOLD (NYSE: IAG).
I used to print color positive slides with a Nikon 8K printer, it was a long time ago but I remember very well you can see the difference from 4K with a loupe. Undoubtedly the image will incredible though personally I would love one for my desktop.
Well actually not so silly. An article on the hundred year computer language provided good insights that recommend it. These insights among others fueled the scientists who built Perl 6, a new advanced language. Or more closer to home, a cousin of mine invented the bar code. He did it in an interesting fashion, by dragging his fingers through sand at the beach and having an epiphany, apparently. The point being that laser scanners did not exist then as far as I know. It is a kind of bootstrapping. http://www.paulgraham.com/hund...
Now I know why people want to rename Perl 6. That trend even had made me a bit uncomfortable, though the latest candidate "P6" sounds better to me.
Perl 6 is a totally different language and yet almost all the posts here are by people who rail against Perl 5.
Perl 6 is already released and it works. It is an incredibly exciting and eminently useful tool that is aimed squarely at the 21st Century. The code is very readable, and probably much more concise than whatever you are using. It is written in Perl 6. It has the best Unicode and regular expressions in the world, full object model, and chained processing, while also mixing in functional and reactive programming styles, plus keywords that make it easy to compose parallel processing for both calculations and UI. It provides exact mathematical results with rational numbers. You can extend the language with your own symbols, and it feels more awesome the more you study it. For example just this past month I learned about how the compiler actually optimizes your code by simulating it before running it. There is a lot more room for it to grow, but it is already awe-inspiring. Not scary awe, but damn! I gotta get me some of that! excitement.
The community is also very helpful and welcoming. At this point, if you are looking for a tool powerful enough to realize your visions or just to mess around with, I would recommend reading more about it. I'm hooked and am convinced it is the best tool for prototyping mine.
Sorry that is just discriminatory and unimaginative. It is totally possible either by pure chance or due to parts logistics sending more of the bad batches to one part of the world. Perhaps they were rushed to Asia to meet marketing campaigns, who knows. (Someone at Apple, not you or me.) Also, the Japanese text on the linked page does not suggest it being fake. The user reports Apple will replace it. Other users are telling him that appears to be a battery deformation like Samsung's, and not to further charge it or take it on a plane in that condition due to risk of explosion. It does not include the kind of fear-mongering text that would support your allegation.
Net media must stop either micro-targeted ads (not likely for FB or Google) or political ads (since micro-targeted political ads are death to society). It only took big data science and social media to deliver the most hideous election in U.S. history and assist the ascendancy of white supremacism in what had been a nation of immigrants.
All FB would have to do is hire human beings to turn down political ads, and the guts to pass up the money. Though broadcast TV takes the opposite path, at least TV does not intentionally try to fool the watcher into thinking everybody on that channel sees the same ads. The next step is to get money out of elections (every candidate gets the same budget for ads and buying supporters) and out of politics (flat dead impossible unless someone other than politicians makes the law).
It's pretty interesting how extreme people are in bashing Musk about this. Google has plenty of reasons for their reaction, not least of which is money, self interest, and molding the media message and perceptions. Engineers too have reasons, mostly though because they are familiar only with current state of the art if that.
The more "reasonable" people here posted that: 1) problem is people not AI, or that 2) the danger of AI is not war but hyper social inequalities.
But neither #1 or #2 are contradicting the idea that AI will contribute to the next world war. Most likely there will be some extension of an AI scoring mechanism that tells you when it is a good day to go to war, and then robotic mechanisms are used to magnify capabilities so that a small number of people can wage a huge amount of widescale destruction.
While I don't know Musk, I don't really see any of the people shouting about his tweet to be saying anything useful at all. Anyway current "AI" as far as I can see is limited to machine intelligence algorithms which are getting better at mimicking some parts of the brain like pattern matching, vision, etc. SInce there is no GAI yet the SkyNet or Collosus horror stories are not going to happen any time soon. But if GAI does start to come to fruition, then people will all start shouting about how to control it.
Wow. This article describes what I tried to do in 1995 for the Kobe earthquake, 20 years ago. But it suggests ways things go wrong as well. In the linked article the journalist put massive effort in and helped some people. But she also told everyone repeatedly that help was coming, even when she knew there were no boats in the water. I do not want to judge, since it sounds like she was doing a superhuman feat that nobody else was there to do and that was the best that was humanly possible. In the end compassion directed her to make some decisions and compassion later haunted her enough to write the article, and explain everything so that others can help in the future.
At that time I was at a new Internet provider that opened for business just before the quake, and I hoped to get Tokyo University to act as a call center to pick up calls for help. There was no news coming out of the area and no phones, but Internet lines were working. We would put it together on a web page and coordinate grassroots disaster relief, sharing people's needs and who could bring help there. In the end we couldn't do it for two main reasons. News organizations refused to cooperate by sharing what they saw from a helicopter, and Tokyo U. said there were too many bureaucratic problems with cooperating. In the end while I was able to provide some support on my own, mostly by relaying information and helping people who were in the area to upload pictures, there was a limit to what was possible. And then the most amazing site was created by a Stanford student if I remember correctly. Nowadays there are lots more systems. I believe the phone company or was it Yahoo made one that lets you say if you are safe.
Since data connections are usually more resilient than voice service (and even voice over data apps degrade) there will likely continue to be a need for data-based systems in emergency situations. I don't know why the emergency support dropped to such a horrifying extent that nobody else could help. I hope the article stimulates more people to recognize the need for better support of communities in disaster areas. If 911 gets overloaded or ignores a key communications channel like this app, then perhaps there should be a way to bring more people on board from different walks of life in an emergency and coordinate online. In fact anyone online even far away from the disaster area could have done so. This journalist took up the challenge but it shouldn't have to happen that way ever again.
Has anyone put thought into how to move or disrupt a storm such as these? True, they carry a huge amount of energy, but we know exactly where it is. Would an off-center orbital kinetic bombardment have any effect beyond injecting more energy into the mess? Other ways to alter its environment?
Next time, fact check instead of spreading FUD. The bullet train in Japan is extremely safe. Here is the reality.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Over the Shinkansen's 50-plus year history, carrying over 10 billion passengers, there have been no passenger fatalities due to derailments or collisions,[19] despite frequent earthquakes and typhoons. Injuries and a single fatality have been caused by doors closing on passengers or their belongings; attendants are employed at platforms to prevent such accidents. There have, however, been suicides by passengers jumping both from and in front of moving trains.[20] On 30 June 2015, a passenger committed suicide on board a Shinkansen train by setting himself on fire, killing another passenger and seriously injuring seven other people.[21]
There have been two derailments of Shinkansen trains in passenger service. The first one occurred during the Chetsu earthquake on 23 October 2004. Eight of ten cars of the Toki No. 325 train on the Jetsu Shinkansen derailed near Nagaoka Station in Nagaoka, Niigata. There were no casualties among the 154 passengers.[22]
Another derailment happened on 2 March 2013 on the Akita Shinkansen when the Komachi No. 25 train derailed in blizzard conditions in Daisen, Akita. No passengers were injured.[23] In the event of an earthquake, an earthquake detection system can bring the train to a stop very quickly. A new anti-derailment device was installed after detailed analysis of the Jetsu derailment. -snip- I believe the safety of these trains are in part due to the absolute professionalism of all people involved with its operation.
They are not going to travel at high speed in a blizzard or hurricaine, and not at all if mafiosos put concrete blocks on the tracks. But there is a lot of safety through high tech, redundancy and humans.
I am not sure this level of professionalism is possible in the U.S. or especially China, considering the current state of their trains, unless a totally new kind of cadre is created. The military mindset might be close, though what is really needed is intelligence, professionalism, empathy, and big bucks for the long haul.
The U.S., China and other countries the size of California and up will gain amazing returns from these trains. The only downsides of which I am aware (and they are not downsides to me) are that they drive down the price of air tickets and also get you used to such comfort that you wonder why you stick yourself in a flying can with miniscule leg room.
Meh, considering how much I paid for a fully loaded MBP the touchbar cost is insignificant. It's not that bad, though since I am not usually looking at it I am ignoring most of what's on it. That, and it takes a bit longer to modify brightness and sound than I'd like. I would like to see Apple provide more tools for using it to input things like Unicode symbols used in Perl 6! While we are dreaming I'd like to exchange my screen for a multitouch capable one that opens flat to the table and use with a pen. Oh, and next time would it be so hard to avoid making razor-sharp edges on every part of the case? I am constantly worried about tearing my slacks and the part where you open the cover (just like my 2009 MBP) has wickedly sharp knife-like points on it.
The Matter in Extreme Conditions Lab photo looks pretty awesome and scary. Exactly like the kind of place James Bond will get trapped in, in his next movie. No way are you going to get me in there. And who left the machete on the floor?
Yes I can't imagine any software engineer who would willingly connect anything to your brain, poof you've been owned. Though you might be willing if you are a: - parapalegic physicist - fighter pilot (remember the movie Firefox? you have to think in Russian. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... ) - ???
Google this: Toyota Estima (the Japanese means "lost the key"). I found 3 sites immediately that discuss Toyota Estima. A couple mentioned charges of about 80 USD while another seemed more detailed. It seems that it is a difficult job that requires rewriting the car's computer, but that it can be done in 60 minutes. They quote a cost of about $165 for Osaka area. TFA says the Japanese partner (should be Toyota) could not do it and that the importer split the cost so they paid around $2000. It sounds expensive but conceivably there was no cheaper alternative in their location, and since they got the importer to pay half it sounds like the importer also could have already tried to help. https://translate.google.com/t... https://translate.google.com/t...
I like maps but I don't want to use them when: - map is dirty / itchy - no map - in a hurry Also, I can say for sure that gps and a couple of maps apps saved my butt when traveling for business in Shanghai. However, it was very difficult to align where I was on a paper map based on the app, even when taking a while to plot individual points. I supplemented it by poring over barely understood road signs and bus route signs.
In the end I found the best way to map the neighborhood of my hotel (endless walks down mysterious roads to get from hotel to a shopping area) was to find a number of points and plot them on the paper map, then after repeated difficulties to finally draw my own version in a little notebook with the key names in two languages.
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I remember visiting Shanghai last year where they have a maglev that speeds you from the airport to just outside the city. I was told that a residential area was built along it but that the maglev generated a huge amount of vibration that affected people's health so they moved away. I don't know if this is apocryphal, but do wonder how much vibration the design will generate and how that would impact the environment, people living above it, cars driving on icy roads above it, etc.
I suppose there is the fantasy of your time becoming more valuable but then why not just accept fractional coin payments? And by saying "My time is your money" what happens if he has an accident or gets bored and stops the experiment? The value will fall since there will be no growth, unless he is able to cede control to some other organization. It seems to me the calculation is that the sum of the full value of all coins he has made are together an investment he has made in trying to advertise his ability as a consultant and experimentally launch a cryptocurrency that is based on something other than air (in this case, his time). Might be more valuable / get coopted by nefarious types if he asks other developers to join in.
I'd like to hear more technical information about the issue and whether there are steps that can be taken to reduce the risk of installing *any* antivirus software. Given that any such package is going to be targeted, perhaps we need to be able to run them in a kind of sandbox that would prevent dialing home and logging. More transparency about how it is being updated, and possibly providing a scanning api to allow the operating system or an open source application to take over document loading might be welcome regardless of the vendor. Currently it is my impression (have not researched it) that human readable update files are not provided, and at least in the past, Kaspersky apparently used your CPU to help crack difficult threats. I don't think anybody really believes they can trust antivirus software or any other software for that matter.
How about buying Bitdefender instead? Was just about to decide on Kaspersky but...
Anybody like it?
Thank you for catching that! I misread the article on that point.
I googled niobium rarity and...
http://www.businessinsider.com...
Due to its relevance in aerospace and defense, Niobium is considered a “strategic metal” by the U.S. government, meaning there are few or no substitutes for the metal’s essential use. Furthermore, of all strategic metals, Niobium is regarded as one of the most highly critical. But its supplies are considered potentially at risk. This is because only a few sources throughout the world produce the metal. Almost 90% of the world supply comes from Brazil. Nearly all of that comes from only one mine. Most of the rest comes from the Canadian Niobec Mine, owned by IAMGOLD (NYSE: IAG).
I was deciding between Kaspersky and Bitdefender for Mac AV. Which do you recommend?
I used to print color positive slides with a Nikon 8K printer, it was a long time ago but I remember very well you can see the difference from 4K with a loupe. Undoubtedly the image will incredible though personally I would love one for my desktop.
Well actually not so silly. An article on the hundred year computer language provided good insights that recommend it. These insights among others fueled the scientists who built Perl 6, a new advanced language. Or more closer to home, a cousin of mine invented the bar code. He did it in an interesting fashion, by dragging his fingers through sand at the beach and having an epiphany, apparently. The point being that laser scanners did not exist then as far as I know. It is a kind of bootstrapping.
http://www.paulgraham.com/hund...
Now I know why people want to rename Perl 6. That trend even had made me a bit uncomfortable, though the latest candidate "P6" sounds better to me.
Perl 6 is a totally different language and yet almost all the posts here are by people who rail against Perl 5.
Perl 6 is already released and it works. It is an incredibly exciting and eminently useful tool that is aimed squarely at the 21st Century. The code is very readable, and probably much more concise than whatever you are using. It is written in Perl 6. It has the best Unicode and regular expressions in the world, full object model, and chained processing, while also mixing in functional and reactive programming styles, plus keywords that make it easy to compose parallel processing for both calculations and UI. It provides exact mathematical results with rational numbers. You can extend the language with your own symbols, and it feels more awesome the more you study it. For example just this past month I learned about how the compiler actually optimizes your code by simulating it before running it. There is a lot more room for it to grow, but it is already awe-inspiring. Not scary awe, but damn! I gotta get me some of that! excitement.
The community is also very helpful and welcoming. At this point, if you are looking for a tool powerful enough to realize your visions or just to mess around with, I would recommend reading more about it. I'm hooked and am convinced it is the best tool for prototyping mine.
Sorry that is just discriminatory and unimaginative. It is totally possible either by pure chance or due to parts logistics sending more of the bad batches to one part of the world. Perhaps they were rushed to Asia to meet marketing campaigns, who knows. (Someone at Apple, not you or me.) Also, the Japanese text on the linked page does not suggest it being fake. The user reports Apple will replace it. Other users are telling him that appears to be a battery deformation like Samsung's, and not to further charge it or take it on a plane in that condition due to risk of explosion. It does not include the kind of fear-mongering text that would support your allegation.
Good luck and your efforts are much appreciated!!!! Stay safe and healthy.
Net media must stop either micro-targeted ads (not likely for FB or Google) or political ads (since micro-targeted political ads are death to society). It only took big data science and social media to deliver the most hideous election in U.S. history and assist the ascendancy of white supremacism in what had been a nation of immigrants.
All FB would have to do is hire human beings to turn down political ads, and the guts to pass up the money. Though broadcast TV takes the opposite path, at least TV does not intentionally try to fool the watcher into thinking everybody on that channel sees the same ads. The next step is to get money out of elections (every candidate gets the same budget for ads and buying supporters) and out of politics (flat dead impossible unless someone other than politicians makes the law).
It's pretty interesting how extreme people are in bashing Musk about this.
Google has plenty of reasons for their reaction, not least of which is money, self interest, and molding the media message and perceptions. Engineers too have reasons, mostly though because they are familiar only with current state of the art if that.
The more "reasonable" people here posted that:
1) problem is people not AI, or that
2) the danger of AI is not war but hyper social inequalities.
But neither #1 or #2 are contradicting the idea that AI will contribute to the next world war. Most likely there will be some extension of an AI scoring mechanism that tells you when it is a good day to go to war, and then robotic mechanisms are used to magnify capabilities so that a small number of people can wage a huge amount of widescale destruction.
While I don't know Musk, I don't really see any of the people shouting about his tweet to be saying anything useful at all. Anyway current "AI" as far as I can see is limited to machine intelligence algorithms which are getting better at mimicking some parts of the brain like pattern matching, vision, etc. SInce there is no GAI yet the SkyNet or Collosus horror stories are not going to happen any time soon. But if GAI does start to come to fruition, then people will all start shouting about how to control it.
Wow. This article describes what I tried to do in 1995 for the Kobe earthquake, 20 years ago. But it suggests ways things go wrong as well. In the linked article the journalist put massive effort in and helped some people. But she also told everyone repeatedly that help was coming, even when she knew there were no boats in the water. I do not want to judge, since it sounds like she was doing a superhuman feat that nobody else was there to do and that was the best that was humanly possible. In the end compassion directed her to make some decisions and compassion later haunted her enough to write the article, and explain everything so that others can help in the future.
At that time I was at a new Internet provider that opened for business just before the quake, and I hoped to get Tokyo University to act as a call center to pick up calls for help. There was no news coming out of the area and no phones, but Internet lines were working. We would put it together on a web page and coordinate grassroots disaster relief, sharing people's needs and who could bring help there. In the end we couldn't do it for two main reasons. News organizations refused to cooperate by sharing what they saw from a helicopter, and Tokyo U. said there were too many bureaucratic problems with cooperating. In the end while I was able to provide some support on my own, mostly by relaying information and helping people who were in the area to upload pictures, there was a limit to what was possible. And then the most amazing site was created by a Stanford student if I remember correctly. Nowadays there are lots more systems. I believe the phone company or was it Yahoo made one that lets you say if you are safe.
Since data connections are usually more resilient than voice service (and even voice over data apps degrade) there will likely continue to be a need for data-based systems in emergency situations. I don't know why the emergency support dropped to such a horrifying extent that nobody else could help. I hope the article stimulates more people to recognize the need for better support of communities in disaster areas. If 911 gets overloaded or ignores a key communications channel like this app, then perhaps there should be a way to bring more people on board from different walks of life in an emergency and coordinate online. In fact anyone online even far away from the disaster area could have done so. This journalist took up the challenge but it shouldn't have to happen that way ever again.
Has anyone put thought into how to move or disrupt a storm such as these? True, they carry a huge amount of energy, but we know exactly where it is. Would an off-center orbital kinetic bombardment have any effect beyond injecting more energy into the mess? Other ways to alter its environment?
see subject
Next time, fact check instead of spreading FUD. The bullet train in Japan is extremely safe. Here is the reality.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Over the Shinkansen's 50-plus year history, carrying over 10 billion passengers, there have been no passenger fatalities due to derailments or collisions,[19] despite frequent earthquakes and typhoons. Injuries and a single fatality have been caused by doors closing on passengers or their belongings; attendants are employed at platforms to prevent such accidents. There have, however, been suicides by passengers jumping both from and in front of moving trains.[20] On 30 June 2015, a passenger committed suicide on board a Shinkansen train by setting himself on fire, killing another passenger and seriously injuring seven other people.[21]
There have been two derailments of Shinkansen trains in passenger service. The first one occurred during the Chetsu earthquake on 23 October 2004. Eight of ten cars of the Toki No. 325 train on the Jetsu Shinkansen derailed near Nagaoka Station in Nagaoka, Niigata. There were no casualties among the 154 passengers.[22]
Another derailment happened on 2 March 2013 on the Akita Shinkansen when the Komachi No. 25 train derailed in blizzard conditions in Daisen, Akita. No passengers were injured.[23]
In the event of an earthquake, an earthquake detection system can bring the train to a stop very quickly. A new anti-derailment device was installed after detailed analysis of the Jetsu derailment.
-snip-
I believe the safety of these trains are in part due to the absolute professionalism of all people involved with its operation.
They are not going to travel at high speed in a blizzard or hurricaine, and not at all if mafiosos put concrete blocks on the tracks. But there is a lot of safety through high tech, redundancy and humans.
I am not sure this level of professionalism is possible in the U.S. or especially China, considering the current state of their trains, unless a totally new kind of cadre is created. The military mindset might be close, though what is really needed is intelligence, professionalism, empathy, and big bucks for the long haul.
The U.S., China and other countries the size of California and up will gain amazing returns from these trains. The only downsides of which I am aware (and they are not downsides to me) are that they drive down the price of air tickets and also get you used to such comfort that you wonder why you stick yourself in a flying can with miniscule leg room.
Meh, considering how much I paid for a fully loaded MBP the touchbar cost is insignificant. It's not that bad, though since I am not usually looking at it I am ignoring most of what's on it. That, and it takes a bit longer to modify brightness and sound than I'd like.
I would like to see Apple provide more tools for using it to input things like Unicode symbols used in Perl 6! While we are dreaming I'd like to exchange my screen for a multitouch capable one that opens flat to the table and use with a pen. Oh, and next time would it be so hard to avoid making razor-sharp edges on every part of the case? I am constantly worried about tearing my slacks and the part where you open the cover (just like my 2009 MBP) has wickedly sharp knife-like points on it.
The Matter in Extreme Conditions Lab photo looks pretty awesome and scary. Exactly like the kind of place James Bond will get trapped in, in his next movie. No way are you going to get me in there. And who left the machete on the floor?
Yes I can't imagine any software engineer who would willingly connect anything to your brain, poof you've been owned. Though you might be willing if you are a:
- parapalegic physicist
- fighter pilot (remember the movie Firefox? you have to think in Russian. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... )
- ???
They are called cruise missiles.
The Japanese got stripped out by slashdot. Try this to see the search results maybe
https://www.google.co.jp/searc...
Google this: Toyota Estima
(the Japanese means "lost the key").
I found 3 sites immediately that discuss Toyota Estima. A couple mentioned charges of about 80 USD while another seemed more detailed. It seems that it is a difficult job that requires rewriting the car's computer, but that it can be done in 60 minutes. They quote a cost of about $165 for Osaka area.
TFA says the Japanese partner (should be Toyota) could not do it and that the importer split the cost so they paid around $2000. It sounds expensive but conceivably there was no cheaper alternative in their location, and since they got the importer to pay half it sounds like the importer also could have already tried to help.
https://translate.google.com/t...
https://translate.google.com/t...
I like maps but I don't want to use them when:
- map is dirty / itchy
- no map
- in a hurry
Also, I can say for sure that gps and a couple of maps apps saved my butt when traveling for business in Shanghai. However, it was very difficult to align where I was on a paper map based on the app, even when taking a while to plot individual points. I supplemented it by poring over barely understood road signs and bus route signs.
In the end I found the best way to map the neighborhood of my hotel (endless walks down mysterious roads to get from hotel to a shopping area) was to find a number of points and plot them on the paper map, then after repeated difficulties to finally draw my own version in a little notebook with the key names in two languages.