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  1. Re:An interesting thought on The AI That Has Nothing to Learn From Humans (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    The end is when both players agree it makes no sense to play any further.
    And that does not affect the scoring (rules) in the slightest.

    E.g. there is a lets say 20 points territory left, but to score 2 points you need to place 13 stones in a 8 or B shaped pattern. The likelihood that you can build such a pattern and I'm watching doing pointless moves is zero.

    With those 13 stones you had taken more than the half of the supposed 20 points territory, so I have no option to compensate. (As there is no place left for another 8)

    When you and I see this, we simply agree on both giving up that 'potential territory' and stop playing.

    That does not affect the territory any one of us had gained so far.

  2. Re:This is not a good solution on Laptops Could Be Banned From Checked Bags on Planes Due To Fire Risk (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I never switch off my laptops, that is why I have laptops. On the other hand if I'm forced to use a windows laptop it does not seem to be a difference if it boots up wakes up, takes the same absurd amount of time.

  3. Re:Banning Lithium-Ion batters on Flights on Laptops Could Be Banned From Checked Bags on Planes Due To Fire Risk (cnn.com) · · Score: 1
  4. Re:Banning Lithium-Ion batters on Flights on Laptops Could Be Banned From Checked Bags on Planes Due To Fire Risk (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Or it burns a hole into the hull and kills every one.

    Which part of: 'it burns like a bazooka charge' did you miss?

    Lucky you are not working in risk assesment ....

  5. Re:An interesting thought on The AI That Has Nothing to Learn From Humans (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    The scoring rules of Go are actually very simple.
    You souround some territorry with your stones ... that territory is your score.
    As you likely have many small territories the sum if those is your score.

  6. Re:The electronic "signature" pad is a bigger joke on MasterCard Has Finally Realized That Signatures Are Obsolete and Stupid (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    In plenty of countries it was common to ask for a discount if you pay cash.
    E.g. in Greece .. but that where times when the card company charged 5% or more.

  7. Re:Signature is just for legal reasons on MasterCard Has Finally Realized That Signatures Are Obsolete and Stupid (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    The server usually brings a remote device where you stick in your card and then enter the PIN.

  8. In Germany you usually still use signature.
    In France PIN. Since a few years my ATM PIN for my credit card works in France (did not work a few years ago)

    In Spain Signature *AND* passport.
    In Denmark I used signature, on the channel Islands signature, too.

    No idea about other countries.

  9. Re:This is not a good solution on Laptops Could Be Banned From Checked Bags on Planes Due To Fire Risk (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    It is not the question of "full latched".

    I had it often enough that a "full latched" laptop did not get into sleep mode.

    No, it is not my only idea that fires start like this, but the parent had the opinion it only can start while charging.

  10. Re:Remove the battery? on Laptops Could Be Banned From Checked Bags on Planes Due To Fire Risk (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Depends on the product.
    My ca. 2004 12" G4 PowerBok had super easy exchangeable batteries.
    Don't really know when they changed that ...

    https://www.macworld.com/artic...

    I don't use it often, but it runs fine with Mac OS X 10.4 (Panther)

  11. Re:Banning Lithium-Ion batters on Flights on Laptops Could Be Banned From Checked Bags on Planes Due To Fire Risk (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Lithium batteries don't really explode in the way a typical bomb does. They combust,
    Uh, Oh! Do you know how a Panzerfaust works, or basically any anti tank weapon? The exact same thing happens if a lith ion battery "explodes". It creates a one yard long flame of super heated metal ions that burn through everything.

    This is a simple one from a very small cell phone battery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    This one is "exploding" due to overcharging: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    You most definitely don't want explosions like this on a plane.

    During the 90s exploding plane equipment (navigation stuff that had lithium ion batteries build in) was a serious problem.

  12. Re:This is not a good solution on Laptops Could Be Banned From Checked Bags on Planes Due To Fire Risk (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    No,
    fires occur when you close your laptop, but it fails to go into sleep mode, for some reason it does calculations, it is in a protective coverage, and you insisted to put it into a suitcase with cloth above and below it, for protection.

    That is the main reason for overheating ... if it is getting hot enough to start a fire is another issue.

  13. Re:Wealth inequality much? on Japan's SoftBank Says It Could Invest as Much As $880 Billion in Tech (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    To what recession are you referring?

  14. Re:Ice or water deposits on Discovery of 50km Cave Raises Hopes For Human Colonisation of Moon (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't see any claim about ice:
    appears to be structurally sound and its rocks may contain ice or water deposits that could be turned into fuel
    Do you need a dictionary for the meaning of the word "may"?

  15. Re:Who shortens state names like that? on Blue Origin Successfully Test Fires Game-Changing BE-4 Rocket Engine (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Who cars? They both are somewhere in america, and both don't launch rockets :D

  16. Re:Summary's not even right on First Mass-Produced Electric Truck Unveiled (nhk.or.jp) · · Score: 1

    I'd be curious to see how that degrades with the stop-start driving of a city delivery truck - I truly don't know how/if that impairs an electric?
    It does not impair EVs. however if you have multiple stops in short order, regenerative breaking probably is not as effective (as you have low speed, and likely just let the car roll out more or less)

    Well, I guess recharging while the car is packed with new stuff to deliver solves most charging problems.

  17. Re:I guess UPS built theirs by hand then for years on First Mass-Produced Electric Truck Unveiled (nhk.or.jp) · · Score: 1

    In my town about half of the UPS trucks are electric.

    The german Post announced a few weeks ago to form its own electric truck building company

    http://www.dpdhl.com/en/media_...

  18. Re:Far from the first. on First Mass-Produced Electric Truck Unveiled (nhk.or.jp) · · Score: 1

    In Germany we had that, too.
    Probably we still have :D - no idea.

  19. Re:Milk floats on First Mass-Produced Electric Truck Unveiled (nhk.or.jp) · · Score: 1

    It is possible to produce silicon based liquid fuels (don't find a good english link).
    It is energy intensive to produce them, but it could be a solution for situations where you you are for a long time off grid.

  20. Re:Scotland's homes don't use much electricity on First Floating Wind Farm Delivers Electricity (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Ooops, my fault, I calculated in my head and got it wrong.
    Anyway, it was not that hot ... at least not in the UK, hottest day way 38.5 degrees C 10 August 2003.

    https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/l...

  21. Re:Drug Design and Climate models on DeepMind's Go-Playing AI Doesn't Need Human Help To Beat Us Anymore (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Hm, i was not aware than an ANN can approximate arbitrary functions/formulas.
    That mean, you could indeed use them in a climate model. But for what purpose? It would be much slower than using the real formulas.

    https://becominghuman.ai/neura...

  22. VR homeentertaining on Could VR Field Trips Replace the Real Thing? (theindychannel.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess I thee the biggest future for VR in home entertaining systems.
    Imagine you have a sports arena projected around you, are via internet connected with your friends or family, who appear inside of your VR simulation and you in theirs.
    You could define where you sit in the stadium and have part of the real audience for atmosphere reasons be projected into your simulation, probabaly with changed faces ...

  23. Re:Scotland's homes don't use much electricity on First Floating Wind Farm Delivers Electricity (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Wow, you're hardcore. The European Heat Wave of 2003 killed thousands at lower temps than that.
    That is nonsense.
    People died in areas where it was much hotter, and they behaved stupid.

    Thailand is a fucking hot country
    It is not. The coast is to windy to be hot and the northern oart is to high to be hot.
    I suggest to travel there once ...
    Of course if you are stuck in a big city ... obviously it is hot,

    - I can't believe anyone who grew up there would enjoy temps that cool.
    She is wearing her pelt inside of the car, unless she is giving it to me, because my skin is becoming blue :)

  24. Re:Drug Design and Climate models on DeepMind's Go-Playing AI Doesn't Need Human Help To Beat Us Anymore (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry, you have to read up what an ANN is and how it works.
    I lack englipsh skills to properly explain it in a forum (or would need two or three days of work, that time I don't have right now)

    Obviously everything a computer does is a bunsh of equations, and applying them, solving them ... that does not make everything equal.

  25. Re:Drug Design and Climate models on DeepMind's Go-Playing AI Doesn't Need Human Help To Beat Us Anymore (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I really don't see any difference, other than one is equations derived by humans, the other by a guided random walk.

    Then you perhaps should read up what an NN/ANN is and how it works: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    Sorry, perhaps I simply lack imagination. Hoever I see no way how that could be used for climate models.

    An ANN is not modeling anything, it is recognizung things. Two things as far apart on the spectrum (of algorithms) as one can imagine.