Who buys movies these days? Just stream them. Do you really watch the same movie enough times that it makes sense to own it? I can count on one or two hands the movies I have seen more than once.
Google's left hand never knows what the right hand is doing. Less than a couple of months ago, Google released Hangouts for Business under the name Hangouts Chat. And thus the product branding confusion continues.
This is all rather ironic (even hypocritical), given that San Diego Comic-con has always been about blatantly ripping off comic and movie design property in the form of attendee costumes. (Of course that's fine by fair use doctrine and artistic license, but the irony remains.)
I found a copy of the virus that was used to exfiltrate data from Sony Entertainment's computers and then wipe them (supposedly the virus was developed by North Koreans, in response to the movie The Interview, but actually, my own forensics suggest that the authors were South Korean). In the process of studying the virus, I must have accidentally double-clicked on the executable in Nautilus when I was trying to drag it to move it into another directory. For whatever stupid reason, Nautilus is set up to run Windows executables in Wine when they are double-clicked. A couple of minutes later, I noticed files were starting to disappear all over my hard drive. I panicked and held down the power button for 5 seconds to hard-shutdown the computer. Sure enough, when I rebooted, I discovered that tens of thousands of files were gone. It's a real victory for Linux compatibility with Windows when Wine can run viruses just as well as Windows.
It all starts with bad programming languages that give you enough rope to hang yourself with, or a gun to shoot yourself and others in the foot with. I'm not even a Rust fanboy, but consider Rust for future projects, as it is probably the safest language today (at least from a security point of view). And even better languages are coming.
Public Service Announcement: deep learning is not even Turing complete. It is simply fancy nonlinear regression that works well on hierarchically-ordered domains.
I'd rather hear it straight from an autistic. At least they say what they mean at all times, and they don't mince words, lie or attempt to manipulate. We live in a screwed up social world.
This is highly ironic, given Elon musk's completely baseless claims that humanity is facing an existential risk from the threat of AI superintelligence. Literally all that we are building today, even using deep learning, amounts to nothing more than fancy statistical regression.
This doesn't show we are winning at creating AI. It simply shows that the game of Go is more tractable than we previously thought. Claims about the number of positions in Go being vastly greater than the number of atoms in the universe (something like the number of atoms squared) completely miss the point: this is a straw man argument for why algorithms weren't good at Go until recently, since (obviously) humans are not searching the entire space of all possible board positions either. It stands to reason that once a sufficiently flexible fuzzy hierarchical pattern matching algorithm were produced, it would be able to play Go much better than a human.
This is not Chrome-only. Variable fonts (OpenType Font Variations) were jointly developed by Microsoft, Apple, Google, and Adobe. It's part of version 1.8 of the OpenType font format specification. It will be built into a Windows release this year, and Apple will also release support in the near future.
There is (almost certainly) a DAC in the USB-C plug. But I still think they could make this for about a dollar in China. You can get one that allows you to charge while listening to music, but it costs $45 from a third party.
Fun fact: they include the dongle in the box, but they do not include a set of headphones. And the adapter probably costs them at most $1 to buy in bulk. For a phone that is $850, I would hardly give them serious credit for their generosity towards their customers here.
Duarte was right: Google is really bad at design. And design at Google got much worse once Duarte took the helm. Material design is a major step backwards for user interfaces: gratuitous animation is freaking annoying, and adds pointless latency, which incurs cognitive cost.
Newsflash: Google drops price of headphone adapter from 2% to 1% of the price of the phone. I agree that $20 is way too steep for the adapter, and $9 seems more reasonable (though it should probably be more like $5). However, Google's original attitude towards pricing of the dongle really just underscores how overpriced the phone is in the first place.
SSNs, birthdates and associated names should all be considered public knowledge, since none of them are revokable (or realistically revokable, in the case of SSNs and names). Relying on an SSN and/or birthdate as a password is madness.
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Based on the exponential growth of data, it's more like the sun going supernova, or at least turning into a red giant.
This is named after the Flight of the Conchords song.
Who buys movies these days? Just stream them. Do you really watch the same movie enough times that it makes sense to own it? I can count on one or two hands the movies I have seen more than once.
I don't fall into any of those described categories. I guess that means I'm not a person?
Also https://xkcd.com/1098/
Google's left hand never knows what the right hand is doing. Less than a couple of months ago, Google released Hangouts for Business under the name Hangouts Chat. And thus the product branding confusion continues.
This is all rather ironic (even hypocritical), given that San Diego Comic-con has always been about blatantly ripping off comic and movie design property in the form of attendee costumes. (Of course that's fine by fair use doctrine and artistic license, but the irony remains.)
I'd wager that store location is more strongly correlated with income bracket than it is with skin color.
I found a copy of the virus that was used to exfiltrate data from Sony Entertainment's computers and then wipe them (supposedly the virus was developed by North Koreans, in response to the movie The Interview, but actually, my own forensics suggest that the authors were South Korean). In the process of studying the virus, I must have accidentally double-clicked on the executable in Nautilus when I was trying to drag it to move it into another directory. For whatever stupid reason, Nautilus is set up to run Windows executables in Wine when they are double-clicked. A couple of minutes later, I noticed files were starting to disappear all over my hard drive. I panicked and held down the power button for 5 seconds to hard-shutdown the computer. Sure enough, when I rebooted, I discovered that tens of thousands of files were gone. It's a real victory for Linux compatibility with Windows when Wine can run viruses just as well as Windows.
And I'm sure that Yandex boosts the ranking of Google search results in their listings, since fair is fair.
It all starts with bad programming languages that give you enough rope to hang yourself with, or a gun to shoot yourself and others in the foot with. I'm not even a Rust fanboy, but consider Rust for future projects, as it is probably the safest language today (at least from a security point of view). And even better languages are coming.
Public Service Announcement: deep learning is not even Turing complete. It is simply fancy nonlinear regression that works well on hierarchically-ordered domains.
I'd rather hear it straight from an autistic. At least they say what they mean at all times, and they don't mince words, lie or attempt to manipulate. We live in a screwed up social world.
This is highly ironic, given Elon musk's completely baseless claims that humanity is facing an existential risk from the threat of AI superintelligence. Literally all that we are building today, even using deep learning, amounts to nothing more than fancy statistical regression.
This doesn't show we are winning at creating AI. It simply shows that the game of Go is more tractable than we previously thought. Claims about the number of positions in Go being vastly greater than the number of atoms in the universe (something like the number of atoms squared) completely miss the point: this is a straw man argument for why algorithms weren't good at Go until recently, since (obviously) humans are not searching the entire space of all possible board positions either. It stands to reason that once a sufficiently flexible fuzzy hierarchical pattern matching algorithm were produced, it would be able to play Go much better than a human.
This is not Chrome-only. Variable fonts (OpenType Font Variations) were jointly developed by Microsoft, Apple, Google, and Adobe. It's part of version 1.8 of the OpenType font format specification. It will be built into a Windows release this year, and Apple will also release support in the near future.
The same types of people that sign up for Mensa may feel that it is a badge of honor to identify as being on the autism spectrum.
There is (almost certainly) a DAC in the USB-C plug. But I still think they could make this for about a dollar in China. You can get one that allows you to charge while listening to music, but it costs $45 from a third party.
Not when you can cram 100,000 of these into one container.
Fun fact: they include the dongle in the box, but they do not include a set of headphones. And the adapter probably costs them at most $1 to buy in bulk. For a phone that is $850, I would hardly give them serious credit for their generosity towards their customers here.
Duarte was right: Google is really bad at design. And design at Google got much worse once Duarte took the helm. Material design is a major step backwards for user interfaces: gratuitous animation is freaking annoying, and adds pointless latency, which incurs cognitive cost.
Newsflash: Google drops price of headphone adapter from 2% to 1% of the price of the phone. I agree that $20 is way too steep for the adapter, and $9 seems more reasonable (though it should probably be more like $5). However, Google's original attitude towards pricing of the dongle really just underscores how overpriced the phone is in the first place.
Same problem with Android Oreo 8.0 public beta. It may have been due to a Bluetooth bug. Seems fixed in 8.0 final though.
Somebody noticed this and filmed it.
SSNs, birthdates and associated names should all be considered public knowledge, since none of them are revokable (or realistically revokable, in the case of SSNs and names). Relying on an SSN and/or birthdate as a password is madness.