Scientists actually recreated what they thought to be the "environment" and crafted artificial proteins in labs with simple stuff like the right chemicals and lightning... uh oh, in the 1960s or so.
Chances are that basically every solar system that has planets in the so called godlylock range harbors life.
Assuming that earth is "special" is just plain idiotic.
I learned Go for two reasons: A) I'm a bit japanophil, like their culture and do various jap. martial arts B) in the early 90s there was a price of $1,000,000 set out for the first Go program that beats a 1 DAN Go player.
Even with modern hardware 'ordinary Go programs' only play around 2 DAN, niveau. I was thinking I could perhaps write a half KI half knowledge-based/pattern-matching and to some extend decision tree based Go program.
AlphaGo won because it brute forced millions of games and saw the outcome not because it has any innate intelligence. Neural networks don't work by brute force.
If you want to say a NN needs thousands if not millions of iterations to 'learn' something, then you are right.
Can we agree that Ke Jie, the #1 Go player in the world, is a very intelligent person? Unless I have talked to him: no. First of all you don't need to be particular intelligent to learn and play go, you only need to sink a lot of time into it. Secondly just because someone excels in Go or Chess does not make him a necessarily particular intelligent person. He can be extremely stupid in ordinary life issues.
You don't need a nuclear arsenal to bomb north Korea into the stone age.
Actually I really wonder why no western or for the matter eastern nation is sending s squad team and kills the 5 or 10 members of the Junta so the country can start over.
Or do you really think the north Korean citizens want to live in the miserable circumstances they are in?
Komi does not influence how you play the game. It is just a number added to the score of the white player, as he has a small disadvantage on small boards (11x11 or 9x9). Perhaps you are mixing Komi up with handicap stones? That are stones the black player can set on the board by a given schema. Those influence the game play of white of course, as he has to fight against up to 9 stones that are already set.
Well, as the dimming is "random" it suggests that multiple (actually probably _many_) objects are orbiting the star in various orbits. We obviously only see the ones that cross in front of the star in our line of sight. A set of planets however would more or less orbit in the same plane, and we had already figured their orbit parameters. So there would be nothing "random".
Then again, the light dimming effect seems to be extremely strong. That would either imply that the objects are insanely big or extremely close to the star.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof... Actually not. Any ordinary proof is good enough. E.g. if I make the extraordinary claim that you are not the father of your first born, but I am, then a simple DNA test will proof it. Your DNA btw would be sufficient, I don't even need to show up:D
We still only have "third world" countries in the sense that the government is not working, e.g. Somalia. Otherwise there are no "third world" countries on the planet since decades.
t's also why Germans burn a lot of Russian gas to heat their homes Germany burns Russian gas because Germany made a 50 years contract with Russia 25 years ago to deliver pipes for pipelines to Russia and getting back gas as compensation.
One single plant, Cordemais is 2.6GW base load, with a minimum unit size of 600MW, and there are others. A power plant does not have a "base load" rating.
Germany burns a lot of brown coal and some anthracite (black coal) Actually, brown coal is the second lowest source of energy after nuclear, well the third lowest as the lowest is hydro.
Right now, as I type this France's electricity demand is about 50GW. Of that 40GW is supplied by nuclear power and about 8GW comes from hydro. No idea what you want to say, but "energy" is counted in Wh, not W. So your numbers are meaningless unless you simply forgot to add the "h". And... if you don't a "per day" or "per month" your numbers make no sense anyway.
Because in France the nukes are owned by the government/state and make about 20 Billion dollars loss each year.
Easy to google.
It's really weird since Germany actually generates most of its electricity from brown coal and Russian gas which is dirt-cheap. That is wrong and easy to google, too.
(burning lovely polluting brown coal) Care to explain how brown coal can be polluting when the power plants have the same regulations than other plants and basically have no traceable exhaust?
and the French, who have an abundance of cheap nuke electricity.. They actually have not, the French power industry is running at huge losses and is subsided by the government (which owns the power industry)
(about the only country in the world that got its nuclear power generating strategy right) So why are they exiting nuclear power silently and quickly?
There are actually papers that suggest nuclear power produces more CO2 than coal if you take mining, refining and enriching and transportation into account... never checked them though.
Considering that coal produces absolutely zero radiation, I wonder how nuclear plants can produce less. Even in germany every mayour nuclear plats had accidents where thy emitted tritium and other "radiation".
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Scientists actually recreated what they thought to be the "environment" and crafted artificial proteins in labs with simple stuff like the right chemicals and lightning ... uh oh, in the 1960s or so.
Chances are that basically every solar system that has planets in the so called godlylock range harbors life.
Assuming that earth is "special" is just plain idiotic.
John Brunner made me curious as he is one of my favorite writers.
The story however is from Fritz Leiber.
I learned Go for two reasons:
A) I'm a bit japanophil, like their culture and do various jap. martial arts
B) in the early 90s there was a price of $1,000,000 set out for the first Go program that beats a 1 DAN Go player.
Even with modern hardware 'ordinary Go programs' only play around 2 DAN, niveau. I was thinking I could perhaps write a half KI half knowledge-based/pattern-matching and to some extend decision tree based Go program.
AlphaGo won because it brute forced millions of games and saw the outcome not because it has any innate intelligence.
Neural networks don't work by brute force.
If you want to say a NN needs thousands if not millions of iterations to 'learn' something, then you are right.
Can we agree that Ke Jie, the #1 Go player in the world, is a very intelligent person?
Unless I have talked to him: no.
First of all you don't need to be particular intelligent to learn and play go, you only need to sink a lot of time into it.
Secondly just because someone excels in Go or Chess does not make him a necessarily particular intelligent person. He can be extremely stupid in ordinary life issues.
You don't need a nuclear arsenal to bomb north Korea into the stone age.
Actually I really wonder why no western or for the matter eastern nation is sending s squad team and kills the 5 or 10 members of the Junta so the country can start over.
Or do you really think the north Korean citizens want to live in the miserable circumstances they are in?
have long been considered means to practice strategic thinking. However a NN that is playing Go is not thinking :)
No one gets banned. ... easy.
However the modders might get banned from the modding system.
You inly need to complain to an admin
Actually Alpha Go is not an MCTS, it is a deep layered neuronal network.
Most Go programs like 'Little Go' based on Fuego however likely are MCTSes.
Komi does not influence how you play the game.
It is just a number added to the score of the white player, as he has a small disadvantage on small boards (11x11 or 9x9).
Perhaps you are mixing Komi up with handicap stones?
That are stones the black player can set on the board by a given schema. Those influence the game play of white of course, as he has to fight against up to 9 stones that are already set.
Well, as the dimming is "random" it suggests that multiple (actually probably _many_) objects are orbiting the star in various orbits. We obviously only see the ones that cross in front of the star in our line of sight.
A set of planets however would more or less orbit in the same plane, and we had already figured their orbit parameters. So there would be nothing "random".
Then again, the light dimming effect seems to be extremely strong. That would either imply that the objects are insanely big or extremely close to the star.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof... :D
Actually not. Any ordinary proof is good enough.
E.g. if I make the extraordinary claim that you are not the father of your first born, but I am, then a simple DNA test will proof it. Your DNA btw would be sufficient, I don't even need to show up
Which idiot invented that "quote"?
We still only have "third world" countries in the sense that the government is not working, e.g. Somalia.
Otherwise there are no "third world" countries on the planet since decades.
t's also why Germans burn a lot of Russian gas to heat their homes
Germany burns Russian gas because Germany made a 50 years contract with Russia 25 years ago to deliver pipes for pipelines to Russia and getting back gas as compensation.
Idiot.
Germanys kWh prices are around 20 cents. ...
No idea where you get your numbers from
As a household you can have off peak prices if you have a second meter or a smart meter.
Per capita?
Pretty unlikely.
One single plant, Cordemais is 2.6GW base load, with a minimum unit size of 600MW, and there are others.
A power plant does not have a "base load" rating.
Germany burns a lot of brown coal and some anthracite (black coal)
Actually, brown coal is the second lowest source of energy after nuclear, well the third lowest as the lowest is hydro.
Right now, as I type this France's electricity demand is about 50GW. Of that 40GW is supplied by nuclear power and about 8GW comes from hydro. ... if you don't a "per day" or "per month" your numbers make no sense anyway.
No idea what you want to say, but "energy" is counted in Wh, not W. So your numbers are meaningless unless you simply forgot to add the "h".
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Because in France the nukes are owned by the government/state and make about 20 Billion dollars loss each year.
Easy to google.
It's really weird since Germany actually generates most of its electricity from brown coal and Russian gas which is dirt-cheap.
That is wrong and easy to google, too.
(burning lovely polluting brown coal)
Care to explain how brown coal can be polluting when the power plants have the same regulations than other plants and basically have no traceable exhaust?
and the French, who have an abundance of cheap nuke electricity..
They actually have not, the French power industry is running at huge losses and is subsided by the government (which owns the power industry)
(about the only country in the world that got its nuclear power generating strategy right)
So why are they exiting nuclear power silently and quickly?
The regulations are insane.
Show me your geek card ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H PhD in Physics and I might believe you, but I doubt it.
There are actually papers that suggest nuclear power produces more CO2 than coal if you take mining, refining and enriching and transportation into account ... never checked them though.
We have storm floods.
No much difference to a Tsunami.
And if there is a considerable quake in England or Iceland we would get a Tsunami, too.
Considering that coal produces absolutely zero radiation, I wonder how nuclear plants can produce less.
Even in germany every mayour nuclear plats had accidents where thy emitted tritium and other "radiation".